Safety and verification
Safety and verification
Rightseat operates no flights and judges no weather. The pilot in command does. This is what we do check.
What is checked, what is deliberately not, and what happens to the paper afterwards.
- The pilot is in command
- Rightseat operates no flights and has no say in whether one goes ahead.
- Five documents
- Identity, licence and medical for the pilot; registration and insurance for the aircraft.
- Read by a person
- By hand, once, before a single seat can be published.
- Expiry dates on file
- When one lapses the badge goes, and the ability to publish goes with it.
Who decides
The pilot is in command
The pilot in command carries all of it, as they do on every other flight they make: the planning, the weather, the state of the aircraft and the decision to go. Rightseat is not an operator and has no authority to tell anybody to go or to stay.
Which is why the person flying is named as pilot in command wherever an arrangement takes shape here — on a flight, in a request, in the messages that settle it.
What we do not check
- Currency, or how many hours somebody has flown.
- Whether the aircraft is airworthy on the day.
- Whether a particular flight is a sensible one to make.
That judgement belongs to the pilot, on the day.
Before a seat goes out
What we do check
Before anybody can publish a seat, we ask for and check by hand:
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Proof of identity
So that the person on the platform is the person at the aircraft.
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A valid pilot licence
So that the person flying the aircraft is licensed to fly it.
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A valid medical certificate
With the date it runs out on file.
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The certificate of registration
For the aircraft the seat is actually published on.
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An insurance policy
That covers the aircraft, and that is current on the day it is handed in.
Each document has an expiry date on file. When one lapses, the badge goes and the ability to publish goes with it until a current document is handed in.
If a flight does not feel right to you, do not get in. That needs no further reason.
What happens to those documents
They are stored outside the public web, opened only by the administrator reviewing them, and never shown to another member. What other members see is the badge, and nothing about the paper behind it.
Privacy statement →Reviews, and why they appear when they do
After a flight, both people are asked whether it went ahead and what it was like. Neither review is shown until both have been written or the window has closed, so that nobody writes theirs in answer to the other.
Something went wrong
Tell us. Behaviour that has no place here — a rate that is really a fare, pressure to fly, anything that made you uncomfortable — is looked at by a person, and accounts are blocked where that is warranted.
An occurrence involving an aircraft goes to the competent authority in the country concerned.